The pandemic is offering a masterclass in who society had deemed worthless.
It starts with older folks -- warehoused and unworthy of even dying with someone they love.
Then it's those who care for them -- PSWs, PABs, cleaners -- all who make so little money.
It starts with older folks -- warehoused and unworthy of even dying with someone they love.
Then it's those who care for them -- PSWs, PABs, cleaners -- all who make so little money.
These folks keep others alive but have so few protections for themselves that once they start becoming sick, everything collapses.
Then there are migrant workers, some who are becoming sick right before the season. Paid less than minimum wage, it's maximum exploitation.
Then there are migrant workers, some who are becoming sick right before the season. Paid less than minimum wage, it's maximum exploitation.
Then, low waged factory work. Aided by TFW labour, it ensures people get cheap meat, fast food, cheap products, cheap metals -- as folks make barely enough to live.
These industries are dominated by poor people, by racialized people, by people who are disenfranchised. But their bosses are extremely franchised. It's them who government responds to.
When we open the economy, we are doing so off their backs. No amount of romantic rhetoric of your local mom and pop restaurant or local artisan cheese store should distract from this reality.
Sandy and Nora fleshes this out ... out tomorrow.
